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Pensacola Museum of Art to auction vintage films
This spring, the Pensacola Museum of Art will sell off a collection of 16mm films gifted to the Museum in the late 1980’s. As this collection is not part of the Museum¹s focus, the PMA will be auctioning these vintage films on Ebay. 100 percent of the proceeds will go towards programming at the PMA.
The films are separated into several categories, including children¹s films, art, educational, and entertainment films. Each of the sections have films ranging from shorts to full length features. Titles include Ansel Adams, Photographer; Moonwalk; several Abott and Costello movies, Ape Man; featuring Bela Lugosi, Amazing Quest with Cary Grant and Flash Gordon, the series.
The first section to be auctioned off will be the children’s films.
The sale began Monday February 28. For more information on any of the films, please contact the Pensacola Museum of Art at 850-432-6247.
UWF grad student
presents Storytelling Festival
The University of West Florida will host a Storytelling Festival March 11 through 13. The festival will kick off with a service by Rabbi David Ostrich March 11 at 7:30 p.m. at Temple Beth El. He will discuss the role of stories in liturgy and Jewish traditions. Other guest speakers will include Rob Kall, founder and organizer of the StoryCon Summit Meeting on the Art, Science and Application of Story, and Peter King, local artist who created the Sept. 11th memorial displayed in downtown Pensacola. The festival is free and open to the public.
“The festival will focus on the art of storytelling and the role it has played throughout time,” said Sandy Droubay, UWF graduate student in interdisciplinary humanities who organized the festival as an extension of her master’s thesis. “We will be examining storytelling in a variety of cultures, the role that stories play in our lives and stories through dance, poetry and film.”
For more information, contact Sandy Droubay at (850) 438-0426 or e-mail droubay2@cox.net, or Melvin Droubay at (850) 474-2794.
Annual Riverwalk Arts Festival is this month
The 17th Annual Riverwalk Fine Arts Festival, sponsored by the Santa Rosa Arts and Culture Foundation, and co-sponsored by the Santa Rosa Council Navy League and the City of Milton, will be held in historic downtown Milton, Florida on Saturday and Sunday, March 12 and 13, on and near Riverwalk Park.
There will be something for people of all ages, including the youngsters. Paula Lou Mapoles will have a variety of hands-on projects for the children in the Children’s Creation Station and there may even be a special guests to greet the little ones.
For details, call Paula Lou Mapoles at 850-626-9567 or Pat D’Asaro at 850-623-8493 or visit www.santarosaarts.org .
Violinist Koh joins Pensacola Symphony for Berg’s Violin Concerto
Exciting young violinist Jennifer Koh will join the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra (PSO) to perform Alban Berg’s emotional Violin Concerto. The Silver Bullet Masterworks performance German Reflections is at 8 p.m., Saturday, March 5 at the Saenger Theatre. The PSO also will perform Beethoven’s Overture to Egmont and Brahms’ Symphony No. 4.
“I love, love, love the Berg violin concerto! And I thank God every day that Berg finished this piece,” Koh said of the concerto, which was completed days before Berg died in 1936. “I think what fascinates me so intensely about the Berg Concerto is its raw emotions. Playing this piece is emotionally draining and exhausting because one goes literally through the life and death and the mourning of death and ultimately the transcendence to peace, within such a relatively short but intense period of time.”
Tickets range from $19 to $53 and are available by calling the Symphony offices at 435-2533 (Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.), logging onto www.pensacolasymphony.com or visiting the Saenger Box Office (118 S. Palafox St.).
Guerrilla Girls to perform at uwf
Guerrilla Girls On Tour will perform “Feminists are Funny” at the University of West Florida March 3 at 7 p.m. in the University Commons Auditorium.
The performance will focus on the disenfranchisement experienced by women artists and artists of color. The event is free and open to the public.
“While students are well-trained in the technique and craft of their chosen art, they are not provided with the tools to critically examine and confront the sexism and racism they are bound to face in their future careers,” says Guerrilla Girls On Tour. “This cross-cultural, multi-disciplinary event will serve to educate the community about the current state of sexism, at the same time proving that feminists are funny.”
Guerrilla Girls On Tour creates original plays, street actions, visual work and residency programs that dramatize women’s history and advocate on behalf of women and artists of color. In order to put the focus of their work on the issues they address, each Guerrilla Girl works under the name of a dead woman artist and performs wearing a gorilla mask.
For more information, contact Marylou Ruud, director of the UWF Women’s Studies program, at (850) 474-2681, e-mail info@guerrillagirlsontour.com or visit guerrillagirlsontour.com.
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